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Photos of the Day - October 06, 2018

Sunday’s Pictures of the Day include Venezuelan migrant Alca on his
skateboard, a Jet Suit demonstration, a deer in a foggy Richmond Park
and Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza

Hundreds counter-protested when six
members of the conservative Westboro Baptist Church picketed Grand Blanc
High School on the day of homecoming. The church members claim that God
will punish "sinners" who don't adhere to traditional sexual roles.
Students at the school selected a transgender student as their
homecoming prince two years ago. The group was met by hundreds of
counter-protesters, one of whom offered "free hugs for all."

Jim West/Alamy Live News

An edible severed hand, decorated using
the Spectrum Flow airbrush system, is seen at The Cake and Bake Show at
ExCel in London. Running over three days, the event aims to showcase
the highest baking skills and demonstrate the latest equipment.

Leon Neal/Getty Images

Electricity workers work on the lines between pylons in the sunset in Nantong, China

Feature China / Barcroft Images

Participants compete in the Women's
100m Backstroke final during the FINA Short Course Swimming World Cup in
Budapest, Hungary. Emily Seebohm of Australia won the gold with 55.81
seconds.

Attila Volgyi/ Xinhua / Barcroft Images

A grove of maple and aspen trees are
coated with snow near Canyon, Minnesota, USA, after about two inches of
wet snow fell overnight, coating the trees and mixing with fall colours.

A Phyllomedusa frog is pictured at the
Palais de la Decouverte in Paris, France during the installation of an
exhibition called "Poison" gathering 30 poisonous species.

JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images

A bride takes part in the simultaneous celebration of 200 weddings to mark the 200th birthday of the city in Grozny, Russia

Musa Sadulayev/AP

One of 200 wedding ceremonies held to mark the 200th birthday of the city, in Grozny, Russia

Musa Sadulayev/AP

A fallow deer stag walks on a foggy morning in Richmond Park in London. The months of Autumn are rutting season for deer which see the male animals engage in fierce mating battles for access to the females.

Jack Taylor/Getty Images

Palestinian demonstrators shout slogans
as they attend the "Great March of Return" demonstration near
Israel-Gaza border, in east of Shuja'iyya neighborhood, Gaza City

Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Palestinian demonstrators shout slogans
as they attend the "Great March of Return" demonstration near
Israel-Gaza border, in east of Shuja'iyya neighborhood, Gaza City

Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Young women lying in a pool of plastic balls shoot selfies at the Supercandy! Pop-Up Museum in Cologne, Germany

Sen. Lisa Murkowksi speaks to reporters
after voting no on a cloture vote for the nomination of Supreme Court
Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, US

Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Protesters stand near police in the downtown area of Chicago after a jury convicted white Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke of
second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan
McDonald. Van Dyke, 40, was the first Chicago officer to be charged with
murder for an on-duty shooting in about 50 years. He was taken into
custody moments after the verdict was read.

Matt Marton/AP

Venezuelan migrant and rap singer,
Alfonso Mendoza aka "Alca", 25, practises with his skateboard in a park
in Barranquilla, Colombia. Alca -who arrived in Colombia nine months ago
due to the crisis in his country- was born without legs and changed the
wheelchair for a skateboard.

Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images

A US Secret Service Agent helps to
steady US First Lady Melania Trump after she got bumped by a baby
elephant at the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya

Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Lance Corporal Anthony Boyle, from
Kilmarnock, is reunited with his 7 month old daughter Lucy, after taking
part in a homecoming parade through Ayr town centre after a six month
tour of Iraq, South Sudan and Cyprus

Jane Barlow/PA

UK and Indonesian Aid is loaded onto an
RAF A400M aircraft in Jakarta, Indonesia, bound for Balikpapan. From
here, it will distributed to the earthquake and tsunami hit island of
Sulawesi.